VIDEO: Sailor on Fukushima Impact on Pacific: “It’s dead… for thousands of miles there was nothing” between US & Japan

nofish“Like sailing in a dead sea… everything’s all gone” — “Just talking about it makes me feel like I want to cry” — “No birds, no fish, no sharks, no dolphins, no turtles, nothing” Bill Crews interviews Ivan MacFadyen about the worsening environmental issues in oceans around the world.

They explore issues about the overfishing in the Great Pacific Ocean and how oceans across the world are becoming barren wastelands lacking wildlife. MORE VIDEO: MORE

Ten Super Disturbing Ways Communism Is Being Made Cool Again

PIGThe useful idiots from the Cold War are back. From Hong Kong to Havana, an ideology that has killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century is gaining new fans. To a global audience in the billions, the Putin regime depicted its communist heritage as a romantic and quaint era – you know, except for the mass starvations or gulags for political prisoners. NBC’s Bob Costas called Communism “a pivotal experiment.” MORE

Afghan Opium Poppy Cultivation Hits All-Time High

OPOpium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan grew to an all-time high in 2013 despite America spending more than $7 billion to fight it over the past decade, a U.S. report showed on Tuesday.

Federal auditors SIGAR reported that Afghan farmers grew an unprecedented 209,000 hectares of the poppy in 2013, blowing past the previous peak of 193,000 hectares in 2007. MORE